Planter attachment.



PATENTED MAY 26, 1908.

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GEORGE WEIDINGER, OF CIROLEVILLE, OHIO.

PLANTER ATTACHMENT.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE VVEIDINGER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Oircleville, in. the county of Pickaway and State ofOhio, have invented a new and Improved Planter Attachment, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to planter attachments, and is particularlyuseful in connection with planters for the sowing of corn, grain and thelike in which a runner is pro vided with lateral blades to run in thefurrow. An object of the invention is to provide a simple, strong anddurable planter attachment including the runner and lateral blades, andhaving means for adjusting the blades in two directions at substantiallyright angles. A further object of the invention is to provide a deviceof this character in which the blades are attached to the runner orfurrow opener and to the seed depositing tube, in such a manner that allexternal projections on the runner and the blades are avoided,wherebythese parts can scour clean by contact with the earth when theplanter is in operation.

A still further object of the invention is to provide clamping meansadapted to be mounted upon the seed depositing tube of a planter, andadjustable longitudinally of the same, and serving to engage theblade-carryingbrackets of the planter in a plurality of positlons.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts tobe more fully described hereinafter and particularly set forth in theclaims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of. reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views, and in which Figure 1 is a sideelevation of a part of a planter showing my invention applied thereto;Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is asection on the line 33 of Fig. 2 and Fig. l is a transverse verticalsection on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

Before proceeding to a more detailed eX- planation of my invention, itshould be clearly understood that the same is applicable to nearly allforms of planters now 111 use in which a shoe or runner is secured tothe frame-Work, and is provided with an earthengaging forward endupwardly disposed and Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. August 1, 1907.

Patented May 26, 1908.

Serial No. 386,590.

adapted to slide along in a furrow as the planter is moved over theground in the longitudinal direction of the furrow. The lateral bladeswhich are mounted on each side of the runner are, adjustable. Thisfeature is of importance, and permits of the regulation of the depth atwhich the seed is to be planted and the depth to which it is to becovered with earth. In many devices of this kind in use at present, theoperator is often inconvenienced by the accumulation of dirt upon therunner and the blades, which do not scour clean by contact with theearth owing to the projecting bolt heads, studs and the like. To obviatethis inconvenience, my device is so arranged that all projections on theouter side of the runner and the blades are avoided. It'will be seenfrom the drawings that the transverse adjustment of the blades is apivotal one, the blades swinging in a transverse plane about the pointsof their engagement with the runner. The blades serve to force the earthaside as the device progresses in a furrow, and hold the earth from theseed depositing tube which drops the seeds to be planted. hen theplanter has passed, the earth which has been displaced by the bladesfalls back into the furrow and covers the seed which has been depositedtherein.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 represents the frame of acorn or other planter of the usual type, mounted upon wheels 2, andhaving shafts or a pole 3 by means of which one or more draft animalsmay be attached to the vehicle. The means for attaching the draftanimals, and the mechanism for operating the seed depositing device maybe of any common or preferred type. It should be understood that myinvention resides primarily in the method of attaching the blades to therunner on the seed depositing tube, and in certain features ofconstruction of the parts involved. 5 for the operator, and theconventional hopper 4 which holds the seed and in which Upon the frame 1is carried a seat are located means (not shown) for permitrunner isbifurcated as is shown most clearly in Fig. 2, and each of the arms 11formed by the bifurcation extends toward one side of the seed depositingtube 6 which is arranged at the end 10 of the runner.

The tube 6 may be of any common form, but I preferably employ a tube ofsubstantially rectangular cross section having flat lateral faces, as isshown most clear y in Fig. 2, and for a purpose which will appearhereinafter. The bifurcated end of the runner is secured to the seeddepositing tube by welding or in any other suitable manner. The runnerforms a depression in the bottom of the furrow as it progresses and theseeds from the hopper fall into this depression, passing through thetube 6. The depression is covered by the earth which falls from thesides of the furrow into the depression after the planter has passed.

Lateral blades 12 are mounted at each side of the runner, and arefastened together at their forward ends by means of a curved bolt pin13, having a head 14 and a threaded portion 15 upon which is arranged anut 16. The pin is mounted in suitable openings of the blades above theupper edge of the runner. The curvature of the pin is such that each endis substantially normal with the surface of a blade. One of the blades12 carries a stud 17, extending laterally toward the other blade tospace them apart a distance substantially equal to the thickness of therunner. The stud is arranged at the side of the pin 13 remote from therunner, so that as the blades are approached by tightening the bolt pinthe lower forward portions of the blades will be drawn tightly togetherand-clamped in position upon the runner, the stud acting as a fulcrum.Near the forward ends, at the inner faces, the blades have roundedprojections 18, adapted to engage the.sides of the runner and to assistin holding the blades firmly in position upon the runner.

The blades 12 at the inner faces carry brackets 19, mounted in positionupon the blades by means of bolts 20, and having inwardly disposed arms21. The arms 21, which are normally in mutual engagement, are curved inthe arc of a circle having a radius substantially equal to the distancebetween each arm and the point of engagement of the blade carrying thatarm, with the runner. It will be understood that, as the blades areswung inwardly or outwardly about their points of engagement with therunner as pivotal points, the arms 21 continue in engagement, as theymove or slide adjacent to one another. This is owing to the curvature ofthe arms. Clamp members 22 having inner serrated faces 23, are mountedat opposite sides of the seed depositing tube, and are held together bymeans of a bolt 24 passing through suitable l l l openings of the clampmembers. The clamp members have transverse openings 25 in which arearranged the arms 21 of the bladecarrying brackets. The clamp membersproject forwardly beyond the seed depositing tube, and are spaced by aspacing member 26 having a threaded extremity 27 mounted in a suitablythreaded opening of one of the clamp members and engaging at the otherend with the opposite clamp member. This end of the spacing member,which is hollow, is threaded and is engaged interiorly by a threadedstud 28 which is mounted in a suitable opening of the adj acent clampmember. It will be understood that by turning the spacing member in onedirectionor the other the outer ends of the clamp members are approachedor moved apart. At the same time, by tightening the clamp bolt 24 themembers can be securely locked in position upon the seed depositingtube, the clamp members being drawn inwardly against the tube with thespacing member acting as a fulcrum. I provide set screws 29 carried byeach of the clamp members and serving to jam the arms 21 in position ateach of the clamp members. It will be seen that each of the set screwslocks both arms at each of the respective clamp members, as the setscrews engage the arms at a point of their mutual engagement with theopening of each clamp member.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. In a planter attachment, the combination, with a seed depositingtube, a runner, and lateral blades at each side of said runner, of clampmembers having adjustable means for removably securing them. upon theseed depositing tube, brackets carrying the blades and normally engagingtherebetween, and means for removably securing said brackets to one ofsaid clamp members at a point of the mutual engagement of said brackets.

2. In a planter attachment, clamp members adapted to be adjustablymounted upon a seed depositing tube, blade carrying brackets havingparts disposed. toward each other and normally in engagement, and meansfor adjustably securing said parts of said brackets to one of said clampmembers at a point of the mutual engagement of said parts.

3. In a planter attachment, clamp members adapted. to be adjustablymounted upon a seed depositing tube, blade-carrying brackets having armsdisposed toward each other and normally in engagement, and means forsimultaneously and adjust-ably securing said arms of said brackets toone of said clamp members at a point of the mutual engagement of saidarms.

4. In a planter attachment, clamp members adapted to be adjustablymounted upon a seed depositing tube and presenting transverse openings,blade-carrying brackets having arms disposed toward each otherandarranged. to slide adj aoent one another, said arms being adapted to bearranged in said openings of said clamp members, and means forsimultaneously and adjustably securing said arms in said openings ofsaid clamp members.

5. In a planter attachment, clamp members adapted to be adjustablymounted upon a seed depositing tube, blades adapted to be mounted upon arunner and adjustable transversely thereof, means for clamping saidblades upon the runner, brackets mounted upon said blades and havingarms disposed toward each other and normally in engagement, said armsbeing curved in the arc of a circle, and means for simultaneously andadjustably securing said arms to one of said clamp members at a point ofthe mutual engagement of said arms.

6. In a planter attachment, clamp members adapted to be adjustablymounted upon a seed depositing tube and having means for approachingsaid clamp members to hold the same in position, blades adapted to bemounted upon a runner and adjustable transversely thereof, means forclamping said blades upon the runner near the forward ends of theblades, brackets mounted at the inner sides of said blades and havingarms disposed toward each other and normally in engagement, said armsbeing curved in the arc of a circle, said clamp members having openingsada ted to receive said 'arms, and means for simu taneously andadjustably securing said arms in said openings.

7. In a planter attachment, clamp memposed between said clamp members atthe side of said bolt remote from the seed depositing tube, said clampmembers presenting openings, blades adapted to be adjustably mountedupon a runner and movable transversely thereof, brackets mounted at thein ner faces of said blades and having inwardly disposed arms, said armsbeing curved in the are of a circle having a radius equal to thedistance of one arm from the point of engagement of the respective bladewith the runner, said openings of said clamp members being adapted toreceive said arms, and set-screws carried by said clamp members andserving to secure said arms in said openings.

8. In a planter attachment, blades adapted. to be mounted at the sidesofa runner and liaving a curved bolt connecting said blades and adaptedto approach. the same at the forward ends thereof, one of said bladeshaving a stud engaging the other of said blades to separate the same atthe side of said bolt remote from said runner, said blades havingrounded proejctions at the inner faces there of for engaging the runner,and means for adjustably securing said blades to a seed depositing tube.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing wltnesses.

GEORGE W'EIDINGER.

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